200 Important Moments in the History of MultiMedia

Animation Class - Exercises 1 and 2

The following students have not submitted the Bouncing Ball and Canon Shot exercises:

Loh Ming Luan
Sela Samrith
Sokhan Sophearith

Please submit to me via e-mail at john@limkokwing.edu.kh ASAP!

Video Poem

MODULE ASSIGNMENT BRIEF:


The Brief
Digital stories can be about anything - love, work, hopes, fears, the past, even the future. An incident that sticks in your mind, a subject you feel strongly about, a place you love (or can't stand), that's the gem of a Digital Story!

Present your digital story in a form of a video poem. The poem must be reflective of your personal feelings or experiences. Example #1: my first day at University would consist images of fear, unknown, new friends etc. Example #2: my personal feelings about rape would include images of fresh flowers dying, lock & key, teardrops, darkness etc.

Students are required to compose their own pictures, use personal artifacts (if applicable) and still pictures in order to give a clear idea for a personal story about themselves or their experience. You are however allowed 50% usage of royalty free images (scanned not downloaded from the internet) BUT there must be altercations to the images (hue/saturation/levels/treatment).

Equipment used for the project includes computers, image manipulation software, basic video editing software, scanners and digital cameras. Try not to use video cameras as this module is not about understanding how to make video BUT understanding how to compose good shots! Start with a digital camera. You can compose in any editing software as long as you can insert sound into the project and it outputs as an AVI or MOV file e.g. idvd, moviemaker etc.

Objective:
The assignment allows you, the student to conceptualise images through juxtaposition. The montage of images is supposed to convey your message and how you organise the images in sequence to emphasise on that visual meaning.

Duration of Assignment (effective from briefing date)
14 Weeks

DEADLINE
Week 14

Video Poem Requirements
The assignment MUST be at least 120 seconds/2 Minutes (minimum requirement)
Video resolution size is 720 X 576 pixels at 25fps PAL formatted
A suitable soundtrack (referenced for educational purposes)
Compiled CD/DVD with master files (images and editing files)
A compiled workbook with storyboard

Workbook Requirements
Must contain storyline, concept, storyboard and the actual poem. Please do not reverse engineer this requirement e.g. finishing the project then producing the workbook. The workbook is your step by step process on how you achieved the final outcome of the assignment.

Submission
Submit your final workbook in an A4 size comb-binded format, with a black backing and a PVC/Clear cover. It must be included in an envelope (12” X 16”) together with a CD/digital copy containing the assignment.

Submit only to your respective lecturer. Ensure that you received a receipt from the lecturer when submitting your work. Also, ensure that you have completed and submitted your Archive (CIRA) form to your lecturers. The CIRA form has to be pasted in front of the envelope and on your CD Cover.

Printing.

In the most general terms, a print is a piece of paper on which a design has been

imprinted from a matrix made of some selected medium, usually stone, wood, or metal.

Prints fall into three general categories depending on their method of production: relief, intaglio, and planographic.

Relief Prints

In a relief print the image is printed from a raised surface on the matrix, so that

the printmaker creates the matrix by cutting away that part which he does not

want to show in the image. To create a relief print the ink is applied to the raised

surface of the matrix, which is then pressed onto a sheet of paper.

Relief printing is quite simple, it is just about printing from a raised surface. Take a flat piece of wood, and cut in to it as in the photo above. Lower the surface of the negative shape and so create a surface in relief. The positive shape or uncut area can now have ink applied to it.

A flat and even layer of ink is rolled out using a roller onto a flat, clean surface called the inking slab.

The ink is then transferred from the slab to the raised surface of the block using the same roller. This is called inking up the block.

A piece of paper is then placed over the block and pressure is applied either by rubbing with a spoon, or putting the block and paper through a hand printing press. The paper is then peeled back; this is called pulling the print. And so a relief print is made.

Intaglio Prints

In an intaglio print the image is printed from a recessed design in the matrix, so

that the printmaker creates the matrix by cutting into it the design he wishes to

imprint on the paper.

To create an intaglio print the ink is pressed into the design

cut in the matrix, the surface is wiped, and the ink is then transferred to the paper

under pressure.

Planographic Prints

In a planographic print the image is printed from a flat matrix, where the image

was created on the surface by use of a grease crayon or with greasy ink (called

Tushe).

To create a planographic print, water (which is repulsed by the greasy

image) is washed onto the surface, and then ink (which is held by the greasy

image) is applied to the surface. A press is then used to transfer the image to the

paper.

The earliest known printed books were produced using wooden blocks with the text

carved on them which was then used as a printing plate.

These "plates" were produced in much the same manner as those for wood engravings -- except instead of an "picture“ carved into them, the actual text of a page of a book was carved into them.

The earliest dated printed book known is the "Diamond Sutra", printed in China in 868 AD. However, it is suspected that book

printing may have occurred long before this date.

Before Gutenberg, printing was limited in the number of editions made and nearly exclusively decorative, used for pictures and designs. Books were hand copied mostly by members of religious orders.

Johannes Gutenberg

The earliest dated printed book known is the "Diamond Sutra", printed in China in

868 CE. Suspected that book printing may have occurred long before this date.

In 1041, movable clay type was first invented in China.

Johannes Gutenberg, a goldsmith and businessman from the mining town of Mainz in southern Germany, borrowed money to invent a technology that changed the world of printing.

He invented the printing press with replaceable/moveable wooden or metal letters in 1436 (completed by 1440).

The Gutenberg press with its wooden and later metal movable type printing brought down the price of printed materials and made such materials available for the masses.

It remained the standard until the 20th century. The Gutenberg printing press developed from the technology of the screw-type wine presses of the Rhine Valley.

It was there in 1440 that Johannes Gutenberg created his printing press, a hand press, in which ink was rolled over the raised surfaces of moveable hand-set block letters held within a wooden form and the form was then pressed against a sheet of paper.

Gutenberg Bible

Johannes Gutenberg is also accredited with printing the world's first book using movable type, the 42-line (the number of lines per page) Gutenberg Bible.

During the centuries, many newer printing technologies were developed based on

Gutenberg's printing machine e.g. offset printing.

Bouncing Balls

Here are some of the clips from the first exercise. Well done!!!

Screenplays for group exercise. Film Language

Click on the Download Screenplay link.

Scroll to the bottom of the new page.

Click on the download link entitled either scene 1 or scene 2.

MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT ONE FOR YOUR GROUP.

Group 1
Download Screenplay

Lantape Paulo VincenteRuiz

Fred Sirhyan Cho

Mony Kandarung

Khim Sambath

Sokhan Sophearith

Touch Sokunthea

Loh Ming Lvan (Michal)

Hun Vannak

group 2

Download Screenplay

Sen Tharo

Sela samreth

Set Lyna

Sok Tha

Ieng Sunsolyna

Ir Chhay Hout

Kang M Youra

Sao Vannaroth

Animation Studies - Exercise 1 - Bouncing Ball

Due at the beginning of the next class! When you finish your flash Bouncing Ball animation, select publish from the File menu to create the .swf file. I will collect all the animations at the beginning of class and we will analyze and critique them.